Letters Detail Objections to BP Settlement

Kathleen Goodlife says she knows her brother Gordon Jones died accidentally when the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up in April 2010. But that doesn't mean she approves of the $4.5 billion criminal settlement that BP PLC has reached with the government.

"I do not want them to only throw money at the problem," Ms. Goodlife wrote in a letter to the federal judge who is overseeing the settlement. "I want compassion...